The Langoliers - Nostalgia Critic 

A Link Between Games cool.

that actually would be a better ending

Press x to doubt

I wish

@@ellnats Agreed

I was looking for a comment like this, I’m not disappointed

Only months later, book was published November the same year of this review.

Apparently, the Langoliers weren't that hungry that time, so the guy could travel back and find people and working world there.

This.. 😂 I was about to say the same thing...

Thank you for reminding me of this series, gotta go rewatch it. Haven't seen it since I was a kid lol

​@TheLambdaTeam i like to think that weird ripping sound described at the end of the story when he travels back to the present after saving Kennedy is the langoliers destroying the space time continuum

Wrong Tom Holland. The director (who made this) is American and 76 years old. The kid who plays Spiderman is British and 23.

Cassandra Morrison it was a joke dipshit

@@CassandrashadowcassMorrison Still weird how they have the same name

@@monhunterz5430 IKR! What are the chances of 2 people having the same name?? It just seems totally impossible!

Is every other comment in this thread a rude or passive-agressive reply to the one that came right before it?

One of those things that size could make a pretty good Brave Frontier giant boss. XD

+siddbastard "moving black holes with teeth big as mountains ... and as they approach, you could see the very fabric of reality ripping apart, crumbling into their mouth" Dude, that is fucking SICK! Where's *your* mini-series? I'd watch the shit out of that.

Here's a few excerpts from the book of the first time the Langoliers appear. "Brian could see them, but he could not understand what it was he was seeing. In some strange way they seemed to defy seeing, and he sensed his frantic, overstressed mind trying to change the incoming information, to make the shapes which had begun to appear at the east end of Runway 21 into something it could understand." (King 193) "There was something malignantly joyful about their behavior. They criss-crossed each other's paths, leaving a wavery black X on the outer taxiway. They bounced high in the air, did an exuberant, crisscrossing maneuver, and then raced straight for the plane. As they did, Brian screamed and Nick screamed beside him. Faces lurked below the surfaces of the racing masses--monstrous, alien faces. They shimmered and twitched and wavered like faces made of glowing swamp gas. The eyes were only rudimentary indentations, but the mouths were huge: semicircular caves lined with gnashing, blurring teeth. They ate as they came, rolling up narrow strips of the world." (King 194)

well, it seem my memories weren't that faithful to the story. I read that short story when i was 15 or so ... i'm 34 now, so yea, i guess the monsters evolved into something bigger in my mind. Maybe because i liked the story ? The idea of something eating the world just 1 second behind you, the fact that the immediate past seems so close, yet impossible to reach, was a good nightmare fuel for me as a teen. Time is scary.

oh. from Vagina Space ;)

Same here, I can totally relate to your story!! :)

+lololandify Same here!:)

Andres Esqueda Same here! I've watched him since 2008, and it's amazing how his show's evolved and helped so many people with laughter.

This one and the captain planet review are two of my favorites from the critic

Nate J. Written by the original writers, Robert Lopez doing the music, starring Felicia Day and Patton Oswalt? If it isn't any good, that in of itself will be a miracle.

All right, buddy, fess up. Was it?

It's very faint. A really terrible, awful sound. A little like Rice Krispies after you pour on the blood.

She Dosent know what they look like so she’s like Ｉ　ＳＥＥ　ＭＯＮＳＴＥＲＳ　ＡＮＤ　ＣＲＡＣＫＬＥＳ

At least u got a senior quote. I'm here without knowing what to put lol

@@tealnoise I see no reason why it shouldn''t be "horrible cereal noise"

I've never read the book, but now would like to. I've always had a strange fascination with this mini-series.

@@jeffsims8270 It can be found in "Four Past Midnight".

@@jbvader721 Oh yea! I remember seeing that title in the opening credits. Cool, thanx so much!!👍😊

Agreed

Really? I thought it was ridiculous and stupid. It was seriously entertaining for much of the same reason the mini-series is. It's hard to take any of it seriously when it goes out of its way to be goofy (Like having a character say "Don't fart" during a high tension moment.).

karasuat lolnope

And Birdemic 1 & 2.

THERE'S A SECOND ONE?!?!?

The cgi in Foodfight was much scarier. Can you imagine cgi Christopher Lloyd coming at you?

karasuat OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHH! You need some ice for that third degree burn, Stephen King!?

He was the best part of the mini series.

I cant tell if hes just terrible at acting in a serious movie or if the writing just forced him to be ridiculous

Or he went out of his way to be the best part of the mini series. Knowing how much it was gonna suck.

Gotta love a guy who graduated magna cum laude from Yale who is best known as a goofy foreigner on a forgettable late 80s sitcom. At least the other Ivy League actor from a sitcom whose character was goofy and comes to mind turned out to be Fonzy, an American treasure... until he jumped a shark. Still a better performance than Balkie the Businessman 🤣

Don't be ridiculous.

So that's where I recognize her from!

That movie is depressing af lol

@@patrickgogan3517 u thought so? I thought it was actually pretty touching, even as a kid I loved it

Actress, dear boy

😂

Tom holland was the hook to civil war😂

Outlined in shiny metallic lettering!

It was more "Who Cares SPIDER MAN"

I would definitely recommend that to anyone!

It would have to have like a Pinkie and the Brain type of theme song.

@@dr.altoclef9255 yes

@@dr.altoclef9255 nice reference

Isn't that just Ghosted

Fact Fact Fact

@suny123boy1 It's accurate, but kind of low hanging fruit. It wasn't a major motion picture, it was a low budget made for TV mini series shortly after the writers strike.

@@Gunner192 There were no writers strikes in the 90s.

Doesn't matter if it was made for TV, Trilogy of terror is a classic and that was made for TV. ;)

@suny123boy1 I rewatch this episode quite often

I'm under the belief that the people that disappeared just don't exist anymore.

@retrobeats but the past is being eaten. That doesnt sound to well. and it also doesnt make the situation better, when it comes to the little girl with more then usual blood in her lungs.

@retrobeats In the book it was implied that the people that didn't sleep stayed on the present, but the plane did not, so they simply fell from the sky to the ground

@@HoradeFidges Actually, Jenkins deduces that everyone that didn't sleep just disintegrated or evaporated. No explanation explains why items on or in anyone's person were left behind but clothes weren't.

@@WarmLusamine That was my guess too and the reason the survivors could remember those people could have been because being asleep while going through the time rip put them out of sync with the original timeline.

LADY!!

I have a meeting at Boston this morning!

MY WIDE ANGLE LENS IS ABOUT TO BURST

GarrettCube THE LITTLE SCARING GIRL....ooh I think I just gave Stephen king his next book/movie title

16:30-16:40 Stabbing the little GIRL?!

It's so 90s.

Oh definitely, this movie was very good at that.

It really does keep u intrigued it I enjoyed the movie despite how the Langoljiers looked

Yup. I liked the suspense.

I love the look on the critic's face, it's priceless XD

+Brian Moro I no rite?!

"Groundhog Day" is a funny movie too ;-)

agreed

First thing I thought of when they showed that rip in time lol

Yeah I comforted my mother.

He shouldn't have slipped on those spoilers.

Never go full HAM!

@@SaikoKujo Tell that to Nicolas Cage, Michael Sheen, Eddie Redmayne and Jeremy Irons.

GhostOfVegeta if i had a dollar for everytime he complained about the lens

GhostOfVegeta i loved that part! XD still laughing

My LAUGHING JAW IS ABOUT TO BREAK!

GhostOfVegeta SCARING THE LITTLE GIRL?!

Exploding Baconeer LADY!!!

I saw this movie in a hospital too!

@@evewrubel3000 you poor souls

That's pretty cruel of the hospital.

Pumped full of hospital drugs and forced to watch the Langaleers

A horrible fate 😔

true there isn't anything worth seeing :|

Profile picture source now

Who?

+jemsrandømness :3TM I live in Maine and I have to say that is correct.

Same here

AuroraKnux LADY!

I don't have time for this stupid meme. I HAVE AN IMPORTANT BUSINESS MEETING IN BOSTON THIS MORNING AT NINE O'CLOCK, AND MY WIDE-ANGLE LENS IS ABOUT TO BURST!

AuroraKnux MY WIDEANGLE LENS IS ABOUT TO BURST

sans the skeleton AND I FORBID YOU-

AuroraKnux Pennywise: wha-ha-wha-ha-wha-ha

And he receives a commission from the Maine Tourist Board.

I'm from a small city in Illinois and I would never set a story here.

Captain Obvious is obvious.

Eugene Sutherland I’m from Massachusetts and I would put a number of stories in the Midwest.

Nah, he's from the fucking ocean. (there's a vine of something involving lobster)

Doctor Sleep? 😉

That's a different Tom Holland

Emily's Cinema TOM FUCKING HOLLAND 😤

Rebecca Boyer I tip my fadora to you my sir.

Just kidding I don't actually have the money for a fadora

Harry the cat XD

Umm...STANDING TAAAAALL on the wings beneath my dreams.

Good one.

That's not what Clairvoyance means.

@@Zeithri what does it mean then? (Im just asking a question, Im not trying to be mean.)

To sense things beyond the actual human senses. So if she could see through others eyes, I would call that a type of clairvoyance. Also would call it BS but that's another story.

@@abeartheycallFozzy thanks for the info.

“She called it Shining.”

+DramaHateNation what's wrong with it?

DramaHateNation awe come on a lot of people have done it

+DramaHateNation come on they're taking something they like and putting it in their name

DramaHateNation calm down and have a pancake

Same here

I blame his dad

understandable, but it does not call for SCARING THE LITTLE GUUURL .

@@saidi7975 SCARING THE LITTLE GIRL?!?!? LADY!!!

HIS WIDE ANGLE LENS IS ABOUT TO BURST

In my Balki impression "Of course not, don't be ridiculous!"

Not MCU Spider-Man Tom Holland. “Child’s Play” director Tom Holland.

@@devanhinskey9001 it's a joke. I think.

@@cheatcode436 Yeah, it was.

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Guess the Langoliers weren't hungry that time. Or they went on a vacation.

They were off scaring the little girl

@@sweetcinnamonpnchkin SCARING THE LITTLE GIRL?!!

+darcanjel7 how about as your alarm. just download it, open it in audacity.. set the gain allllll the way to the max. have fun with bleeding ears whenever you wake up.

+darcanjel7 That is the best idea EVAH!! I just made that my text tone.

darcanjel7 I want to do that so bad, though it would probably confuse people. I mean, if I was sitting in a meeting and heard "Scaring the little gIRL?!" coming from someone's phone, I would go "Huh?"

That would be amazing. "Scaring the little giRL?!?" What the heck was that? Oh sorry, it was my phone. In one minute I have to take this- Hey Mom!

If you don't answer it in time, the langoliers will eat you and your phone.

The number of random people I've met who understand the reference when I yell it out randomly is more than I ever thought possible lol

It would make a real funny ringtone

Stop yelling, you're scaring the little girl

@@LiTtLeJuNe3 SCARING THE LITTLE GIRL!?

@@dredskl SCARING THE LITTLE GIIIRL ?! LADY !!

AND I FORBID YOU!!!

Hell, it's worse than Screech.

ScArInG tHe LiTtLe GiRl !!?!?!!???!!

@@PatrickBoi6497 LADY!

🤣

oh come on, Dipper's awesome.

It's also Funny cous den Stockwell was in quntum leap and that dead the jfk story

Really? But that's one of the most uninspired and hackneyed plots ever. That and going back in time to kill hitler

In quntum leap it was one of the beast episodes with Sam bekit leaping through lee Harvey Oswalds life and starting to think that he is lee havey Oswald will tring to stop the asination and ended with the twist that they hade be ther to save Jkeay kenneder not to stop the asination

Red Dwarf did a JFK story too, where the cast somehow find a time machine, and decide to go back in time to enjoy a fish and chip shop that Lister remembers, but get the co-ordinates extremely wrong and end up pushing the assassin out of the window. This leads to what is practically the end of the world, with World War 3 or something, and they have to go back in time to kill him again. Only none of them want to actually do it, so they go and find the one man capable of shooting JFK... Himself.

***** So... Were the writers over at Red dwarf on drugs?

That would explain the MFTV "The Shining, " then...

Now I wish the assassin survived!

Or even better, Thanos' Son

Looked like Spider-Man turned into Uncle Ben to me.

i love your profile picture

Because this is CoD. Okay but in all seriousness even though bullets travel at ridiculous speeds they still travel technically "through time" from when you pull the trigger to when you hit your target. Even point blank range there is still however time for the bullet to travel from the chamber to the target. A knife on the other hand doesn't have to travel through time in a technical sense because of the fact someone is using it and is direct, unlike a bullet which is indirect. If in the movie though the bullet actually leaves the chamber and hits the guy but does not die then I have no real idea how to explain it.

BECAUSE TWIST

In the book, everything has gone odd and flat because it's the past. So food tastes wrong, beer and pop have no fizz, and matches/gunpowder/fuel don't properly combust unless brought into the airplane. (Since they apparently brought some of their own time with them or something, so it recharges things.)

+BlueMoonZerc knifes, guns and all other things are just metals, powder with addition of oxygen for reaction. I don't think that time differs one from another, so if the gunpowder is getting weaker, then the other chemical reactions should obey this laws, so I think that, for example, the oxygen from yesterday shouldn't be enough for them to breath normally.

Nah, this plot is just too dumb to ever work.

Been saying this for years. It if we’re modernized, it would be terrifying

That line sounds like something the camera man would blurt out halfway into filming a POV shot for a porno.

Now that you mention that, this does remind me of the episode "midnight"

every weeping angel episode ever.

A better comparison would be "Sleep No More"

+Joseph Carlisle hmm, I thought that 'angels in Manhattan' hit it on the head.

Angels wasn't a filler though. It was a devolopment in the character arcs of Amy and Rory.

DA MotoNeko It's kind of too tragic, though, when his life is such a parade of misery and we have no idea why he even gets up in the morning. And why was his dad such an asshole to him, what's his deal?

CruelestChris likely a perfectionist who was raised similary. But yea, a parade of misery and have it all end like that? not a single one even reaching their hand out to atleast try and help him when this happens? if i was god i'd give him an honorary ticket to heaven because living that kind of life and having it end like that.. holy christ in the church during christmas that is tragic..

DA MotoNeko BUT WHAT ABOUT THE BLACK GUY. NOT ONLY DID HE MAYBE DIE BUT THEY FORGOT HIS BODY. THEY ACCIDENTLY LEFT HIM TO BE FORGOTTEN BY HIS FRIENDS AND FAMILY.

sigh824 Buddy, i agree and i think about him too but when i see a child crying, it affects me more. the sight of someone treating a child to the point were they cant hold back tears, it infuriates me.

***** i dont get it..

4 part series?! Does anything, like, happen? In the book version?

Four separate stories; The Langoliers, Secret Window, The Library Policeman and The Sun Dog. No real link between the stories but I really enjoyed this book.

And all of the stupid stuff from this mini series is in fact present in the book The Langoliers.

@@SunnysFilms Where can I find this book?

@@cheatcode436 It's in King's compellation Four Past Midnight. It's the first story in the four story series. You can probably find it on Amazon or Ebay real cheap. I think ours game in from a garage sale or auction.

Goosebumps is basically just Stephen King for kids

Just make sure your CGI can live up to that image.

I am the only motherfucker who thinks he hot!!?

Some Gamer you haven’t heard of reminds me to clean off my wonder boner soon. Fishing season...

At least overacting in general has the luxury of being unintentionally hilarious. Underacting unfortunately doesn't.

I prefer overacting as well. Underacting ruins a movie when the characters seem to be unrealistically bored at times.

You're overreacting the little girl.

+Cheepa Creepa OVERREACTING THE LITTLE GIRL?!

SuperDrinkingPepsi LADY!!!

You or your loved one may need to see a doctor.

8-Bit Squirrel What's embarrassing was that I thought they were scary as a child, but that's Stephen King for ya...

Olivia McDonagh The more you know!

And knowing is half the battle GI JOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOE

Cool. That will come in handy. I get impaled every other week.

+D3mon Edg3 And knowing makes it even more confusing. *UWE BOOOOOOOOOOLL!*

+Olivia McDonagh really? removing a knife is BAD?

Why hasnt the critic smile become a meme already lol

Do someone know what is the melody

Toad Lash I can see that in some of his short stories...

..............aren't you dead? Jk. XD

Honestly, reading the opening to the book made that music play in my head.

Hello Mr Ebert!!

“The white zone is for immediate loading and unloading of passengers only. There is no stopping in the red zone.”

The Meatballs from Abe's Oddyssey. That is the best comparison anybody's made.

The book is so much cooler at describing the actual Langoliers. But I love Bronson's interpretation of Mr. Toomey. He was brilliant.

Didn't see the whole movie as a kid; I only saw the scene of the plane taking off at the end. Thought the langoliers were dumb, but the scene with them looking down as the last bits of the world crumbling into a void, that really stuck with me as a kid.

Rhino 'n Chips

Well, when time doesn't work, you have eternity to eat every plancksecond of reality. Doesn't matter how long it takes, yeah? They're always just a moment behind us.

Beyotiful XD

HA

Animated-Aaron I thought of Azula when that guy was having dad visions

Hmm, now that I think about it, Mr Toomey does remind me of soka

Cuz toph was.sassy like really sassy

Will you pipe down? You're scaring the little girl.

“SCARING THE LITTLE GIRL!!!”

@@Lord_Marshal_Valdar LADY!!!!

Epic

+The Opinionated Nut They couldn't afford birds with a $10,000 budget. They spent it all on creating the world's first synthetic actor.

Still better effect than Food Fight, with less than 1% of the budget.

+fighterbrony Ehhh. At least in ACI, they make it obvious it';s a recreation. Usually it's not supposed to look realistic. It's jarring in a film like _The Langoliers_ because it's immersion-breaking and takes you away from the story. Though there was that one episode, I think it was a Delta Airlines crash, which showed a fairly realistic looking plane crashing into what appeared to be blank white cuboids. That one irritated me because it seemed no effort had been put in at all. Then there's the Helios crash episode, which actually had pretty awesome graphics. i.ytimg.com/vi/xXOUzLu06MQ/hqdefault.jpg

+fighterbrony Haha well said, but this is a TV movie after all, it probably had a budget of £4.95!

And they spent it on an actor who loves to scream.

It's fitting really that the langos are digital. It's just that much more freaky

LADY!!!

Nickman1024 Best part.

Lady!!!

tcostner99 Scaring a little GHARRRHL

Oh now that's scaring the little girl

ssKAERING THE lIITLE guUARUUAL ?!

Like always

yup

Damn! You beat me to it! 😄

+Herman Falck How great a 72 year old man is playing Spider-man

Leonardo Baumle Saw Civil War, totally killed it! That 72 year old was spry!

Stop your scaring the Little girl!

TheRcanmeananything Lol! I read this at the same time as he said it!

@@lunabearsong2043 HOLY SHIT, ME TOO! LOL!

Me too the fuck

A year before he was born too. Amazing.